Month: July 2018
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Dr. Keri Gardner explores the importance of docs understanding that they can be the captain of their ER, but can’t do it all. Copy
Captains, Call for Help! By: Keri Gardner, MD, MPH, FACEP Keeping an ED running smoothly shouldn’t be a one person job. “Loneliness is the penalty of leadership….” -Ernest Shackleton Fresh out of residency, I headed for my first job in a community hospital in Los Angeles where the ED director gave me a pep…
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Dr. Keri Gardner explores the challenge when doctors and nurses clash over properly filing paperwork to avoid issues that derail teamwork.
Just as soon as you file that paperwork, Doc By: Keri Gardner, MD, MPH, FACEP Paperwork isn’t nearly as exciting as saving lives, but in order to set a consistent tone with RNs, Here is a case where problems with written orders led to a strained work environment for a trauma surgeon and an RN and…